Those who search for truth are too conscious of the maze to be hard on others...

Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.

Life is like a Chinese burn.

Love is scary. But not as scary as living without the one person who makes your life worth living.

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.

Look at life all around; everything is growing, everything is moving forward. Therefore I recommend keeping in touch with life and with art.

Government failure is always used as an excuse for government expansion. Government thrives on crisis and incompetence.

I definitely feel, when I'm wearing the costume, that I could scare people and hurt them.

I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don't need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice!

I kept starting 'Anansi Boys' as a movie and stopping, and eventually wrote the novel and was happy.

Dissimulation is the only thing that makes society possible; without its amenities the world would be a bear-garden.